Frightfully Fabulous Halloween Content Includes
New Series Halloween Cookie Challenge and Returning
Fan-Favourites Halloween Baking Championship, Halloween
Wars, Corus Studios' The Big Bake: Halloween and Many
More
Star-Studded New Series Include It's
CompliPlated with Tabitha
Brown, Guy's Ultimate Game Night with
Guy Fieri, Bobby & Sophie on
the Coast and Bobby's Triple Threat with Bobby Flay and Big Bad Budget Battle with
Ree Drummond
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TORONTO, Aug. 29,
2022 /CNW/ - Food Network Canada's fall schedule is packed full of
frightfully fabulous Halloween programming, heart-racing
competitions, star-studded new series and returning fan-favourites.
On September 12, the network
kicks off seven consecutive weeks full of festive Halloween-themed
content. A slate of much-anticipated new series also joins the
schedule including It's CompliPlated, Guy's Ultimate
Game Night, Bobby & Sophie on the Coast, Bobby's
Triple Threat, Big Bad Budget Battle, plus the
return of Corus Studios' Big Food Bucket List and the
recently announced milestone 10th season of Top Chef
Canada.
As the ultimate destination for jaw-dropping Halloween-themed
programming, Food Network Canada begins this year's Halloween event
with a new season of Halloween Baking
Championship, a top five Food Network Canada program
last falI*, with Season 8 (2x120, 6x60) premiering September 12. In each new episode airing
Mondays at 8 p.m.
ET/PT, this season's batch of bakers are tasked with
creating spell-binding treats for a chance to win $25,000 and the title of Halloween Baking
Champion.
Up next, Corus Studios' The Big Bake:
Halloween (7x60) returns with more larger-than-life baking
battles beginning September 18
at 7 p.m. ET/ 11 p.m. PT, with new episodes moving to
Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/ 11 p.m. PT beginning September 25. Each episode tasks three
professional baking teams with designing, baking and decorating a
grand-scale cake creation based on eerie themes, including creepy
clowns, zombie high school, monsters on the move and more, for a
chance to win $10,000.
Brad Smith returns as host
alongside judges Eddie
Jackson and Ron
Ben-Israel. Rounding out this season's judging panel is
Danni Rose; a talented
self-taught home cook and baker, cookbook author and internet
sensation whose recipes have been viewed more than 500 million
times.
Then on September 18 at
8 p.m. ET/PT, Road to
Halloween Wars (1x60) premieres followed by back-to-back
new episodes of the deliciously scary Halloween
Wars (8x60), a top five Food Network Canada program
last falI*, with beginning at 9 p.m.
ET/PT. Come September
25, one new episode airs each Wednesday at
9 p.m. ET/PT, with talented
cake decorators, candy-makers and pumpkin carvers unite to frighten
viewers with their haunted creations and compete for a chance to
win a big cash prize. Adding to the festive fun is a new season of
Outrageous Pumpkins (4x60), a top 10 Food
Network Canada program last falI*, beginning September 25 at 10
p.m. ET/PT, with host Sunny
Anderson overseeing a group of seven fierce carvers
descend onto the pumpkin patch, determined to make Halloween
history. Rounding out the schedule is new series Halloween
Cookie Challenge, with competitors showing baking off their
baking skills and Halloween thrills, debuting September 26 at 11
p.m. ET and Kids Baking Championship: Trick or
Eat Special (1x60min) on October 17 at 8
p.m. ET with judges Duff
Goldman and Maneet
Chauhan challenging four young bakers to create a
show-stopping dessert using Halloween candy.
Big Food Bucket List, Season 3, also returns with
new episodes beginning September 3
at 8 p.m. ET/PT, as host John
Catucci continues his epic adventures across
North America. Week-after-week
viewers will be treated to more mouth-watering dishes and must-see
culinary stops; including sky-high lemon pie topped with clouds of
meringue, juicy beef brisket barbecued right on the beach,
outrageously stacked 100-layer lasagna and a burrito jam-packed
with crispy French fries.
Additional fall premieres include:
It's CompliPlated (6x60min)
New series premieres Tuesday, August
30 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Beginning
September 27, new episodes move to
Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
Social
media star and bestselling author Tabitha Brown challenges four talented chefs
to please a particularly tricky panel of judges with delicious
dishes that meet both dietary restrictions and taste preferences.
Chopped judge Maneet
Chauhan provides her expertise as these competitors
battle it out for the $10,000
prize.
Guy's Ultimate Game Night (5x60min)
New series premieres Wednesday, August
31 at 9 p.m.
ET/PT
Guy
Fieri welcomes his celebrity friends to the
Flavortown Lounge for outrageously fun and entertaining
food-inspired games on Guy's Ultimate Game Night. This new
game show puts a culinary twist on classic party games as the
celebrity contestants compete in front of a live studio audience
for the chance to win prizes for their favourite charity. The
celebs must stay on their toes as they play with food in the
hands-on challenge and test their culinary knowledge with trivia
and word puzzles. Guy's Ultimate Game Night contestants
include actress Alyssa
Milano, musician Brett
Michaels, musician Carnie
Wilson, television personality Carson Kressley, comedian Cheech Marin, Olympian Johnny Weir, television host Maria Menounos, actress Natasha Leggero, television personality
Ross Matthews, actress
Vivica A. Fox, and many more.
Let the games begin!
No-Recipe Road Trip with the Try
Guys (5x60min)
New series premieres Wednesday, August
31 at 10 p.m.
ET/PT
With millions of followers and a loyal fan
base, comedy group The Try Guys are well-known for their curiosity,
humour and willingness to try anything under the sun, often with
hilarious results. No-Recipe Road Trip with the Try Guys
will see the group hit the road, stopping in a new city each
episode where they must attempt to make two local restaurant's
best-known dish with no recipe or instruction. In the end, the Try
Guy with the most successful dish as determined by a local chef and
guest judge wins and gets the chance to have their dish put on the
restaurant's menu.
Cheat Day USA (13x30min)
New series premieres Thursday, September
1 with back-to back new episodes at 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
ET/PT. Come September 8, new
episodes air at 10 p.m.
ET/PT
Follow Chef Robert
Irvine as he travels across America to visit eateries,
finding the craziest, most indulgent, most deliciously decadent
meals to tuck into between gym days.
Bobby & Sophie on the Coast (3x60min)
New series premieres Friday, September
2 at 10 p.m.
ET/PT
Bobby
Flay and his daughter Sophie take a
delicious food tour of the sunny California coastline to explore old and new
spots in Los Angeles' exploding
food scene. Together they're on a mission to visit the top
restaurants and chefs for delectable and inventive cuisine. With so
much inspiration, Bobby can't resist using the local ingredients to
cook up his own delicious dishes that perfectly reflect what
California cuisine is all
about
Bobby's Triple Threat (6x60min)
New series premieres Friday, September
30 at 10 p.m.
ET/PT
Food Network icon Bobby
Flay is one of the best chefs on the planet and a master in
the culinary arena, having spent his life competing at the highest
level of cuisine. Now, Bobby has created the toughest culinary
competition yet on the new six-episode series Bobby's Triple
Threat. In each one-hour episode, one extraordinarily talented
and eager chef is challenged to go against the trio of culinary
titans handpicked by Bobby himself for a chance to take home
$25,000. The stakes couldn't be
higher, as Bobby celebrates and tests the most talented chefs in
America.
Big Bad Budget Battle (6x60min)
New series premieres Wednesday, October
5 at 10 p.m.
ET/PT
Talented home cooks must save money, time and
headaches in the kitchen to create next-level meals. From dishes
made only from pantry items to reimagined leftovers, their cooking
abilities will be tested in two rounds of relatable challenges.
They need to pinch pennies so they don't blow their budget, make
thrifty and delicious brunches and elevated one-pot dinner party
meals. Host Ree Drummond,
along with a panel of rotating judges including, Darnell Ferguson, Eddie Jackson, Beau MacMillan, Catherine McCord, Damaris Phillips and Justin Warner, will decide the winner. In
the end, the best cook and savviest saver will take home the trophy
and one year's worth of groceries.
The Big Bake: Halloween is produced by Nikki
Ray Media Agency in association with Corus Studios for Food Network
Canada. For Nikki Ray Media Agency, Tanya
Linton and Mike Sheerin are
Executive Producers and Jen Pratt is
Co-Executive Producer. For Corus Studios and Food Network Canada,
Debbie Brown is Executive in Charge
of Production, Krista Look is
Director of Original Lifestyle Content and Lisa Godfrey is Senior Vice President of
Original Content and Corus Studios.
Big Food Bucket List is produced by Lone
Eagle Entertainment in association with Corus Studios for Food
Network Canada. For Lone Eagle Entertainment, Michael Geddes and Rachel Horvath are Executive Producers and
Tanya Blake is Series Producer. For
Corus Studios and Food Network Canada, Dora
Fong is the Executive in Charge of Production, Krista Look is Vice President of Original
Lifestyle Content and Lisa Godfrey
is Senior Vice President of Original Content and Corus Studios.
Source: Numeris PPM Data, Total Canada, Fall'21 (Aug
30/21 – Jan 2/22)//Rank based on 3+ airings, Mo-Su 2a-2a. AMA(000),
A25-54, Food Network.
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